Last week on Post Academic (5/2-5/8)

Happy Mother’s Day! At the end of one week and the beginning of another, we catch our collective breath on the blog and gather up links to some of the posts that have either cycled off the home page or might have been lost in the shuffle. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and thanks for reading!

* Caroline considers whether or not academia needs a better marketing team here and here. (Hint: the answer seems to be yes…)

* It’s that time of year for Arnold: No, not the end of the school year as it is for most academics, but time for a little–and a little more–post-game analysis over this year’s job application cycle.

* And our most popular post of the week is…a report on James Franco’s quixotic mission to TA as a first-year grad student at Yale, which apparently doesn’t happen. If we knew celeb education stories were so popular, we would’ve run this much less exciting piece about how Bobby Flay wants to attend Georgetown to get his B.A., too.